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fields and the open countrx', hut was ha|)p\ ni ihv ^^ardvn and the woods. 

 FulI-<irown shi'e|), eows and horses he seemed to fear; but eoits, eaKi's or 

 lambs atlorded him miieh amusement and hi' was (greatly niterested m thiin. 

 It seemed to those w ho eared for him that hi' recognized youth and was s\ m- 

 pathetiealU chaw 11 to it. He became so attached to the lamil\ tliat it K'lt 

 alone he would make a great noise, shrieking and crymg. This tendency 

 increased so that alter three years it was necessary to make sonu' other 

 arrangements for him. Due in large nu'asure to a misunderstanding which his 

 owners have always regretted, John was sold to a circus, transported across 

 the Atlantic to New ^Ork, where, after a month's separation from liis friends 

 and j)rotectors, during which time he relused to take food and showed other 

 signs of real homesickness, he died in the lower ol the old Madison Scjuarc 

 Garden, in April, i()2i. The skeleton and laxidermic preparation of this 

 remarkable gorilla which contributed so much to our knowledge and better 

 understanding of the great troglodyte anthropoids may be seen among the 

 gorilla collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Most of the 

 serial sections introduced in this work, illustrating the l)rain stem ol the 

 gorilla, were obtained from John Daniil the first. 



It ma\ be added as a note to this inst ruct i\ e histor\ of what appears 

 to be the Inst gorilla raised under the conditions ot such intimate domestic 

 life, that Miss Cunningham has become so much interested m the species as 

 to secure another young gorilla which she called John Daniel the Second. 

 John Daniel the first was a little oxer six years old w hen he died. I he present 

 specimen of this species possessed b\ Miss (Cunningham is ol about the 

 same age. In man\ respects, these two great apes correspond in their (.'mo- 

 tional reactions and their suscept ibilit \ to training. John Daniel the Second 

 is, perhaps, a less likable indi\ idual and has a disposition more in keeping 

 with the ancient reputation of the great anthropoids. 



